This essay from 2009 proposes how thirteen chapters of a book dedicated to educating people on fighting wind projects might be organized. The introduction of the essay is provided below. The full essay can be downloaded from this page. Windaction wishes to extend our special thanks to Dr. Calvin Luther Martin for his many efforts to provide guidance and clarity to what is a frustrating and painful process that communities across the world have had to face. Dr. Martin's wife, Dr. Nina Pierpont, researcher the harms wind turbine noise created for people living near wind turbines. Dr. Pierpont coined the term "Wind Turbine Syndrome" in her seminal work by the same name.
This essay from 2009 proposes how thirteen chapters of a book dedicated to educating people on fighting wind projects might be organized. The introduction of the essay is provided below. The full essay can be downloaded from this page. Windaction wishes to extend our special thanks to Dr. Calvin Luther Martin for his many efforts to provide guidance and clarity to what is a frustrating and painful process that communities across the world have had to face. Dr. Martin's wife, Dr. Nina Pierpont, researcher the harms wind turbine noise created for people living near wind turbines. Dr. Pierpont coined the term "Wind Turbine Syndrome" in her seminal work by the same name.
The following contains profanity, vulgarity, and obscenity. None of it gratuitous or slovenly used but, rather, used because the Big Wind Onslaught is so outrageous that precisely this rich imagery is inevitable and, yes, appropriate. When you, too, are forced to abandon your home to turbines, you will see my point. Keep this image -- abandoned home -- before you as you read.
Yesterday I turned 61. I've been fighting the wind bastards well over 4 years. Four years devoted to almost nothing else. Put a big book on hold with Yale Univ. Press for this. In those years I've answered thousands of emails from people around the world. Japan. Cyprus. Norway. Sweden. Czechoslovakia. Australia. New Zealand. Ireland. England. Wales. France. Canada. Many states of the Union. On and on.
In those years, which included years of fighting the wind thugs in three or four different iterations in my backyard and beating the sons of bitches (at least for now), I've learned some valuable lessons. I oughta write a book.Consider this the first installment of that book. I am no longer an academic. I'm a writer. Writers write to convey something in the most appropriate language for the matter at hand. For wind energy the most appropriate language is profanity, vulgarity, and obscenity. The louder the better. These are not honorable people. Wind energy is not an honorable enterprise. Big Wind is obscene, profane, and vulgar.
Okay, rough draft of book.
